Christian Greetings!

My name is Shannon Mimbs. Although not raised in a church setting, I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ on August 2, 1998 as a result of the witness of one of my dear friends, Jason Toole. And it has been a tremendous journey in God’s grace thus far!

My wife and I moved to AL after living for five years in Cleveland, TN where we both attended Lee U. Currently, my wife, Dee, attends UAB Graduate School of Mathematics, while I hope to graduate from CoG Seminary in December.

We met Sonny and Tammy at Alabaster Church of God and are grateful for their faithful witness of Jesus Christ. I enjoy reading Sonny’s blog and look forward to future discussions.

Peace

hello-my name is john and i dont like introducing myself but Sonny says i must. i am 43. live in Alabaster and attend Alabaster Church of God. i was raised a Baptist and still struggle with fitting into a pentecostal setting. i met Sonny in his Wednesday and Sunday morning class and he has been an amazing friend and an incredible teacher. i work in a school caffeteria. i am married to an amazing woman named Barbara and have two daughters.

Hello my name is Dee Prince. I recently celebrated my 50th birthday. I was raised in a Pentecostal church setting by my dad’s parents.
My grandfather was a pastor and my grandmother was a prayer warrior. My mother was a full- blooded Cherokee Indian. She believed in the vodoo and witchcraft. She conceived me for the purpose of making me a sacrifice to satan. My grandmother being a devoted woman of God and a prayer warrior became very burdened for the child in my mother’s womb. She began praying and on the day of my birth; while my mother was in recovery, my grandmother slipped around to the nursery and asked if she could touch my little bald head. With oil on her hands, she annointed me that day. When I was taken back to my mother, she spit on me and turned her face to the wall.
This was the beginning of many years of abuse from my mother. She told me many times ” I wish you were never born, you were supposed to be my perfect sacrifice but you grandmother messed up my plans”! I was always afraid of my mother and I did not understand why. My mother died in 1991. My grandmother tried many times to witness to her and gave her a chance to know Jesus. My mother refused to accept the forgiveness and relationship that was offered to her. She died a horrible death. I want to ask those of you who are reading this to please ask Jesus into your heart and allow him to be Lord in your life. We all have a hope of an eternity with Jesus but unless you accept him and ask for forgiveness you will not spend eternity in Heaven with him.
My grandmother would come by our house on Sunday morning and pick up my sisters and myself and take us to church. My hair was matted, my clothes were dirty and we all were a mess. My grandmother would take us to the bathroom, brush our hair, wash our faces and dress us in church attire complete with patten leather shoes and hairbows. She would undress us after church and take us home in the same condition she picked us up in. My mother would stand on the porch as my grandmother was leaving and cuss her out for taking us to church. I am thankful that my grandmother did not back down and she was able to give us a firm foundation in Christ.
I do not take being a Christian for granted. I have realized that even though I suffered greatly at my mother’s hand, God has never left me. I was chosen and annointed the day I was born to serve him. I am thankful God never turned his back on me even when I was not living for him.
I am married to my wonderful husband, Rodney. I have 3 sons and 1 daughter. In birth order Shannon is 32, Suzhan is 30 Bradley is 28 and Kirk is 27. Brad and Kirk are full time military with the Air Force. We have 10 grandchildren which include 2 sets of boy/girl twins.
I have been blessed with a wonderful family and a church family. Sonny has challenged me many times over the last few years to go beyond what I have experienced or what I was taught and study and find out for myself what God is saying in his word.

God Bless you all

Dee

I am Leigh and my husband is Chris. We are one of the many children and in-laws that Sonny and Tammy are not afraid to call family. We have two little gifts from God Alyssa and Sara who are featured in the “Twelve Little Soldiers” section. (Their pics are a little old but they sure are cute. :angel:

Chris and I work with individuals with special needs: Chris is an ESE teacher in a middle school and I direct many things at a group home in Miami.

I am catholic and Chris is, well, Chris. (He’s just happy to be here.) When we visit Alabama from Florida we usually come to stay with Sonny and Tammy and go to their church. Everyone there is always so nice to us and we love visiting.

God is a very important to us and has blessed us in many different ways. We enjoy having spirited conversations with our friends and family. We both are looking forward to the blog postings.

Hi my name is Chris i am 23 years old and i was made an heir to the kingdom of christ at the youing age of 6 yrs old. For as long as i can remember from my youth my mom had me in church every time the doors where open and even when they were not…lol. I in just the last 2 years found out that when i was born my mom gave me back to god and made the promise to raise me in the fear and knowledge of jehova. I am now 23 years old and dispite a breif distraction at age 18 i have never turned from my call to ministry. God is a faithful god true and just in all he does. he has shown this evident in my life because if you know me i have had my close calls with some things that should have killed me but god remained stable throughout my life i received my call to preach on march 12 2006 and exactly 1 year to the day i put on my battle gear shouldered my cross bound and determined to make a mark for the kingdom of god. Many people remember the day i walked out of my home church at alabaster cog and i only a few know the man god was molding me into.

march 14, 2007 i arrived at my new home in saraland al….a small country town outside of mobile. There god began to grow me into the man i am today. I am by no means where god has called me to be but i am on the path that will get me there in his time. God never does things the way we expect his plan is better because he sees the whole picture. i do not take lightly the call i have on my life in the last few months i can honestly say that god was developing character ion me by placing me in situations to be obedient and when i passed or failed he let me know….i have to say the whole jonah experience has left me with a fishy taste in my mouth, i now find myself in nineveh screaming at god saying you got me here…im here…what do you want me to do…lol. God has his on little ways of guiding our lives in ways we cant see but we can feel the strains and prodes of his oh so “gentle” cattle proding in our disobedience. I myself am in a place where i have all these things but they keep getting taken away breaking down my pride little by little because god is telling me to trust, press, beleive, obey, be patient, and quit touching it you gave it to me now leave it alone. Leave it alone that is hard to do when you dont know how. God tells me often…like he told jonah “what right do you have to be angry nothing you have is yours you gave it to me so i can take or give what i want”….what right do I have? I am sorry this introduction is reading more like a blog…lol

I fully beleive that God will do. what he will do, when he intends to do it. So I can only at this present point in time press my shoulder firmly to the plow and watch what God can do when he is in complete control. I am full of this unyeilding passion to pour into the lives of teenagers and young adults but its not Gods time….there is a man who lives inside of me, imagine a wild man chained to a wall…hes crazy, like tougue talking, fire walkin, pew hoping, oil slingin, truth speakin, holy ghost driven, unyeilding and unwaivering in all he does but he isnt allowed to come out…not yet god promised me that when he has refined me enough and got enough of “me” out of the way that man can come out….THE DEVIL KNOWS OF WHO I SPEAK AND THE DEVILS IN HELL TREMBLE AT THE THOUGHT OF HAVING TO DEAL WITH THAT MAN BECAUSE THAT IS GODS MAN. I am not there yet but when i get there you better beleive i aint lookin back.

God is still workin on me but i am blessed to have such good godly mentors to help guide me through these times in my life, but as you will see, you will see what God sees and that man is a man that this world wont like but will have to respect, a man that the kingdom of hell will hate but will be made to fear, and a man that deserves nothing, but is blessed and highly favored among men.

Thanks for reading about me i hope that all who read this will see that our walk with God is a journey…not a destination.

ALL MY LOVE IN CHRIST, UNTIL HE COMES AGAIN
CHRIS

Theresa,

Welcome and thank you. We are so glad to know you at least through emails and now here. Someday, even if it is in eternity, we will meet.

Thanks for the comments about Tammy. She is wonderful and is sorry she hasn’t kept in touch as much as she would like. She is extremely busy at work and has had some medical problems. Keep her in your prayers.

Happy thanksgiving and

We love you all

Hello,
My name is Beth, I am 27 years old and married to a wonderful man named Anthony. We have two beautiful little girls Roxanna 4 and Kaitlyn almost 2 and we are expecting our third daughter in April 2009. I met Tammy Cable through my mother’s work place. And yes I have heard many stories of Tammy and Sonny. I married a man that has known Tammy and Sonny for many years and calls Tammy his second momma, thus exposing me to many other stories…..lol
I was very pleased to hear that Sonny had indeed come to Christ and was blessed to be and Tammy and Sonny’s second Wedding (it was beautiful guys).
I came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ when I was 8 years old. I attended Helena Pentecostal Worship center from the time that I was 2 until 2003. Then Anthony and I both felt it was time to move on and we started attending Alabaster COG. I have loved being under the leadership of a wonderful pastor. I attend Sonny’s Sunday morning class and I am a better Christian for it. Thank you Sonny and Tammy for the love and prayers you have poured into our lives.
We have had our struggles and are currently in need of your prayers but God has spoken in His word “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you. (Isaiah 54:10)
I pray that all who pass here will have a true and loving relationship with the Lord and will know that there are those who will be praying for you.

My name is Nancy Massey. I am married to Yogi, have 5 children and 3 grand daughters so far, we are expecting a grand son in April. I have been attending Alabaster Church of God for about 28 years. In the beginning I went because Opal, my daughter enjoyed going so much and constantly asked me to go with her. After just a few regular visits I was asked to teach the older girls class. As I studied the lessons God began to draw me close to Him and show me His mercy and love. As ususal we were holding a fund raiser selling t-shirts. There were some cute one and some with a real eye opening message. I decided to give God a try after seeing a t-shirt that said Give God a try-the devil will always take you back. Up until then I really didn’t think of myself as being “the devils”. I though I was a good person and smart enough to teach/control the class I was asked to teach, so what was so bad about me-nothing really- I was just a lost soul on my way to HELL without hope if I didn’t surrender my will to God. God took me as I was and has moved me from glory to glory. Now I go to church to assemble with my church family to offer up praise and worship corporately to God, happy to have such a loving church. I sing on the praise team, in the choir, I help decorate the church and sub for Sonnys’ class-when needed. I thank God for the precious family that I have here at ACOG. Sonny is a very good teacher and Tammy is awesome at supporting him, not to mention her other talents-singing, teaching, praying, exorting……. I love them both.

Love you all